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Old 6th Jan 2003, 06:17
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You can definitely get away with more hooliganism in a glider!

It was a tradition in my gliding club to visit some of our old members birthday celebration by glider. He lived in the very last house of the city, with a large and even field right behind his house. As this place was about 20 miles of our airfield, we used to tow the glider to the place, do a low flypast (with the glider of course) and then landed there, just to have the first beer delivered directly to the cockpit. Other club members took the trailer and join at the celebration.
One year the weather was not too good, low scattered cluds, so we went over the top for the tow. As the glider was too high after releasing the rope, it took a few minutes to sink to an altitude which results in VNE for a spectacular low and fast flyby.
We took the chance to perform two low approaches with the towplane, which leads to a neigbour calling the police.
They arrived just in the same moment, the glider landed, but could not do anything about it, because this it is totally legal to land a glider on a field, and they were too late to watch the flyby.
Unfortunately we haven´t seen the policecar, and did another low approach with the towplane after the glider had landed, holly s***, we were accused for this one !

So learn the lesson : Hooliganism is recommended in gliders only !
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